Russian Cities from East to West: Geographic Order
Major Russian cities ordered by longitude (easternmost to westernmost):
- Anadyr (Chukotka) — 177°30'E — Far East, Bering Sea
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchatka) — 158°38'E — Pacific, volcanoes
- Magadan (Magadan Oblast) — 150°48'E — Sea of Okhotsk, Kolyma
- Yakutsk (Sakha) — 129°44'E — Lena River, coldest city
- Irkutsk (Irkutsk Oblast) — 104°18'E — Lake Baikal, Trans-Sib
- Krasnoyarsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai) — 92°52'E — Yenisey River, aluminum
- Novosibirsk (Novosibirsk Oblast) — 82°56'E — Ob River, Siberia's largest
- Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) — 60°36'E — Urals, Asia/Europe border
- Perm (Perm Krai) — 56°14'E — Kama River, industrial
- Kazan (Tatarstan) — 49°07'E — Volga, Kremlin, IT hub
- Moscow — 37°37'E — Capital, center of gravity
- St. Petersburg — 30°19'E — Baltic, cultural capital
Notes
- Longitudes approximate city centers
- Russia spans ~170° longitude (11 time zones)
- Anadyr to St. Petersburg: ~6,500 km air distance
- Many smaller cities east of Anadyr (e.g., Egvekinot, Pevek)
- Kaliningrad (20°30'E) is west of St. Petersburg but an exclave
Time Zone Context
Russia uses 11 time zones (UTC+2 to UTC+12). Since 2014, no daylight saving.